Big Tech Digest #7

2023-08-25: Adopting dbt at Instacart, Reducing JS bundles by 33% at Dropbox, Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture, Uncovering LLM vulnerabilities at Wix, and more!

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// 📫 Engineering blogs digest

Selectively picked blog posts from the most recent tech companies’ engineering blogs.

• [Slack] Slack’s Migration to a Cellular Architecture is a story of increasing redundancy and limiting the blast radius of site failures by Cooper Bethea

• [Instacart] Adopting dbt as the Data Transformation Tool at Instacart summarizes Instacart’s exploration and migration to dbt by James Zheng

• [Dropbox] How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% is a fantastic summary of reducing JS bundles at Dropbox by Umair Nadeem and Rich Hong

• [Meta] Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding

• [Wix] Unveiling LLM Vulnerabilities: 6 Key Risks and How to Stay Secure by Zeev Kalyuzhner

• [Cockroach Labs] What is an inverted index, and why should you care? by

  Charlie Custer

• [Meta] Introducing Immortal Objects for Python by Eddie Elizondo

• [The Guardian] Aurora Serverless – a migration story by Philip McMahon

• [Github] mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong by Michael Stepankin

• [Depop] Feature-driven ML by Nikos Varelas

// ⭐️ Misc

a.k.a. the nerd section 🧑‍💻!

• Highlights from Git 2.42 by Taylor Blau

• Teaching language models to reason algorithmically by Hattie Zhou and Hanie Sedghi

• Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 by Russ Cox

• Structured Logging with slog by Jonathan Amsterdam

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